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Venture Capital is About Human Capital

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We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes. That’s why I often say The role of VC is “chief psychologist.” Fundamentally venture capital is about human capital.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Here’s why.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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VENTURE CAPITAL. Mobile News. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. About GeekWire.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We The 2011 Inc. 500|5000 List. The 2011 Top Lists. 500|5000 Conference.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Business & Small Business.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. But I don’t think so. What went wrong?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).